Wes Goldberg

And that was that only happened because Ware was playing well in that game.

In this game, we saw it in the second quarter.

And I was like, oh, my God, first half minutes with both these guys on the court.

This is planned.

This is a planned thing.

This is not just a hot hand thing.

And then a minute later, bam, subs out.

And we only got to see it for a minute, which is basically nothing.

That barely counts.

So to answer your question, I think the reason why they got away from it, they did experiment with it more earlier in the year, especially with the starting group, like I said.

But then the numbers after a while just kind of indicated that it didn't work.

The Heat were better.

as a defensive team and strangely enough as a rebounding team when they only had one of Bam and Ware on the court without the other one.

And that was the case when it was Ware without Bam or Bam without Ware.

Very strange that that was the case.

If you're not getting the rebounding advantage and you're not getting a rim protection advantage, then why are you playing too big?

Because now you're sacrificing space and you're not getting any of the advantages of it.

And so Spoh decided that it's not going to work.

There's also the added wrinkle that they just don't have another center on the roster.

So making sure that they're staggered the entire time is the way to, to mitigate those things when they do start together.